Monday's
accident wasn't the first of its kind to happen at Turner Field, and
marked at least the third time a sports fan has fallen from the stands
in Atlanta in about a year.

Isaac Grubb, 20, of Lenoir City, Tenn.
died after falling over a railing at the Georgia Dome during a football
game between Tennessee and North Carolina State on Aug. 31, 2012.
Authorities said he landed on another man seated in the lower level, and
that alcohol was a factor.

A man fell about 25 feet over a
staircase railing at a Georgia Tech-Miami football game on Sept. 22,
2012 and was not seriously injured.

In May 2008, a 25-year-old
Cumming, Ga. man suffered head injuries when he fell down a stairwell at
Turner Field during a game between the Braves and the New York Mets and
later died. Police found that alcohol had factored into that accident,
which the Braves had said was the first non-medical fatality to happen
at the ballpark.

Turner Field became the home of the Braves in 1997, a year after serving as the site of events for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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